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Rateds: PG-13, R; Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; With: Lauren Bacall, Jeff Bridges and Barbra Streisand
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES (PG-13) From a director-star legendary for her control issues, uncontrollable self-revelation leaks out of every scene. Barbra Streisand plays Rose, a college prof who thinks she's a loser shlub, and who enters into a fishy conjugal arrangement with a fellow teacher (Jeff Bridges) whose idea of romantic bliss is an unconsummated marriage to a woman who doesn't turn him on. The point, buried in this weird tour through one diva's neuroses, is that beauty comes from within. Of course, to prove her thesis, Rose gets a beauty makeover and then demands to be loved for her old self. Among the costars Streisand pushes out of the frame: Mimi Rogers, Pierce Brosnan, and a campily formidable Lauren Bacall as Rose's domineering mother. C-
Posted Nov 29, 1996
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